Our home lives are shrinking. Last year, the average size of new houses built in the US fell for the third straight year, according to the National Association of Home Builders. Worldwide, the UN expects more and more people to gravitate toward urban areas over […]
Day: July 25, 2019
Gross Domestic Product by State, 1st quarter 2019
Gross Domestic Product by State, 1st quarter 2019 Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in the first quarter of 2019. The percent change in real GDP in the first quarter ranged from 5.2 percent in West […]
Facebook ignored staff warnings about “sketchy” Cambridge Analytica in September 2015
Facebook employees tried to alert the company about the activity of Cambridge Analytica as early as September 2015, per the SEC’s complaint against the company which was published yesterday. This chimes with a court filing that emerged earlier this year — which also suggested Facebook […]
Eight ways to reduce and offset your digital carbon footprint
About the author M.J. Kelly is the Managing Editor of Mozilla. Whether it’s from doing things like burning fossil fuels through driving, cranking up the furnace or grilling a steak, we are all responsible for releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which is called our […]
Big data, the shield for margins: how to use technology to make sale season more profitableBIG Data
Big data, the shield for margins. Most companies in the fashion system are suffering margin drops every year, due mainly to price deductions and the rise of promotions. The Pairing advanced analytics with intuitive tools to transform retail markdown management, report by McKinsey, points that […]
Tesla stock stalls after reporting greater-than-expected loss
Shares of Tesla plunged more than 10 percent in late trading after Elon Musks' electric-car maker reported a greater-than-expected second-quarter … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
A second heat wave hits Europe, with Paris expecting 109F on Thursday
Elisabeth Borne, France's minister of sustainable development, urged citizens to cancel or postpone all unnecessary travel during the heat wave, … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #travel #tours
Pensioni 2019, ultimissime su opzione donna: proroga sempre più vicina?
Le ultimissime novità sulla riforma pensioni al 25 luglio 2019, riguardano nello specifico la proroga dell'opzione donna e le notizie che vengono … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
9 reasons the Facebook FTC settlement is a joke
The FTC just announced the details of its settlement agreement with Facebook over years of privacy practices in violation of a previous order. To say the settlement is favorable to Facebook, even with the record $5 billion penalty, is an understatement; the company’s lawyers are […]
Facebook’s Ex-Security Chief Details His ‘Observatory’ for Internet Abuse
When Alex Stamos describes the challenge of studying the worst problems of mass-scale bad behavior on the internet, he compares it to astronomy. To chart the cosmos, astronomers don’t build their own Hubble telescopes or Arecibo observatories. They concentrate their resources in a few well-situated […]